the feds are taking aims at t-mobile saying they are making hundreds of millions with bogus text messages that you pay for and don t want. cheryl, apparently this charge shows up on page 123 of someone s bill. who looks there? i know you go through your cellphone bill every month chat. this is called cramming. they are texts you are getting but they are advertisements but on the bill it isn t itemized. you see it as a usage fee. i would think that was something i had to pay. i would not think it was a text message where they get a little
let s say. shares jumped higher after a takeover bid and the group offered a second option where it would spin off the e-leader note. no decision off that deal. $19 billion. that s a lot of money. that s what facebook is paying for whatsapp. yeah, that s that popular messaging service like a social network site. you can send videos, texts and voice messages but you don t pay the usage fee like you do to your cell phone carrier. what do you pay? $1 as a membership fee. this app has 50 million users and adding about 1 million universe a day. cnn analyst and host of technique bytes brett larson joins us from new york. good morning. good to be here. i wish i had a piece of whatsapp. even a smalls piece.
it might be. nobody has the right to bitch about their roads needing repaired, their potholes, unless you re willing to step up and pay for it. every day we pay gax taxes already. i can talk about the gas taxes until the cows come home. the gas tax hasn t gone up. the federal gas tax has not gone up for 20 years. and the cost of road construction and repair has gone up by 55% over that time. it is a usage fee. it is a tax on those people using the roads. now i will say, if you re happy with the state of the roads, fine, don t raise it. but if you want the roads repaired, you either have to raise the gas tax or talk about switching to a road usage fee, which is something that weave talked about. but people driving have to pay for the roads. we do pay gas taxes already. on the local level, federal level, state level. in fact, i think that the
toll roads work for where they are. dagen, you re the one who says that government needs to prioritize. so this is important, start prioritizing. right. that s what i m saying. if you re not willing as a driver to pay for road repair, like if you re roads are in bad condition around where you live and if you re happy with that, that s fine. then keep the gas taxes exactly where they are. but, adam, i want to say something to adam s point about this, the gas tax has been very successful. it s actually a declining source of revenue because of the fuel efficiency of automobiles these days. people aren t buying as much gasoline. so in the long run, as a nation, we have to come up with a way to pay for road repair and construction. whether it s usage fee, higher gas taxes, that s a decision we ll be forced to make. gary k.? i said earlier, we re spending $900 billion a year more than we did five years ago. take some of that money. fix the roads.
to look out because they ll have to make up the lost revenue from somewhere. i definitely think that banks will try to find other ways to charge customers. it might be new fees, maintenance fee for your checking account, debit card usage fee. but they re not going to take a loss in revenue. nyu won t be charged by the atm company right there at that time of transaction. you could be still charged on the back end by your bank. shep: my bank charges me all the time, but if i even go to an atm that s free, i think i would be willing to watch the message unless they re lining up behind me and that would get unhappy. that s the thing, is it doesn t take any longer is what they re saying. the normal amount of time that it takes to spit out the catch. shep: free atm, i bet it s popular. welcome to the fox news family. thank you so much. shep: americans shattered on-line sale records on the holiday season. we shelled out more than $35 billion for stuff on the internet and compani